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Professor Wolfgang Wahlster is the Director and CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) and Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University.
Professor Wahlster has published more than 170 technical papers and 8 books on language technology and intelligent user interfaces. His current research includes multimodal and perceptive user interfaces, user modeling, ambient intelligence, smart navigation systems, semantic web services, and resource-adaptive cognitive technologies.
Work Experience
- Director and CEO, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
- Professor of Computer Science, Saarland University, Saarbruecken
- Chief Scientific Advisor for ICT in the Research Union of the German Government
- Member of the Board of various IT and VC companies in Germany
Education
- PhD, Computer Science, University of Hamburg, 1981
- Diploma degree in Computer Science, University of Hamburg, 1977
Awards, Honors and Significant Achievements
- President, International Association for Computational Linguistics
- President, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Inc.
- President, European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence
- Member, Information Society Technologies Advisory Board for FP6 of the EC
- AAAI Fellow, ECCAI Fellow, and GI Fellow
- Recipient of the European Information Technology European Prize
- First AI researcher to receive the Beckhurts Prize
- Recipient of the German Future Prize awarded by the President of Germany
- Full Member, German Academy of Sciences and Literature
- Full Member, German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
- Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm
- Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, of the Federal Republic of Germany
Professor Wahlster's DFKI web page
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